Dr Victoria Lynn

Dr Victoria Lynn has over three decades of experience in public galleries in Australia championing the work of emerging and established artists.

Dr Lynn was Chair of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Co-curator and Commissioner on two Australian pavilion exhibitions in Venice Biennale, and had senior roles at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Adelaide Festival before joining TarraWarra Museum of Art as Chief Executive Officer and Director in 2012. She is widely acknowledged as a curator deeply engaged with First Nations arts along with expertise that spans contemporary art across the globe.

The depth of Dr Lynn’s curatorial practice has had inspirational impact on audiences, artists and the history of exhibitions at a national and international level.

Since joining TarraWarra, she has transformed the museum gifted to the people of Australia by the late Eva and Marc Besen. Dr Lynn has curated solo exhibitions with leading international and Australian artists. Highlights include the contemporary French artist Pierre Huyghe, and Australian artists Patricia Piccinini, Judy Watson and Rosemary Laing. Dr Lynn is also recognised for her unique thematic approach to contemporary art in exhibitions that include artists from India, Indonesia, Northern Europe, China, and Australia. Importantly, Dr Lynn has a long association with First Nations curators, writers and artists and has developed a close working relationship with the Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation in Healesville, who care for the historic site of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. Care for Country and the principal of learning to live in harmony with difference have permeated Dr Lynn’s work as a writer, curator and Museum Director.

In 2023 to 2024, Dr Lynn worked with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Struggles for Sovereignty in Indonesia and TarraWarra Museum of Art to realise the Soils exhibition, which brought together artists and communities around the impact of colonisation on climate change through exhibitions, webinars and publications.

Dr Lynn is also esteemed for her knowledge and authorship of over 100 articles, catalogue essays and three monographs on aspects of contemporary art and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2008 and her Doctor of Philosophy at Monash University in 2020.